Perhaps not in every single place in the entire country, but certainly at many places many "cop watchers", "first amendment auditors" and other similar "holding officials accountable" type of activists have noticed many, many times how cops seem to think that they are above the law. That many laws that apply to citizens (and which the cops constantly enforce on citizens) don't apply to them. This particularly when it comes to cars.
If there is, for example, a city or state ordinance against heavily tinted windows (and something that cops bust drivers constantly for), you can be goddam certain that many cops will have heavily tinted windows, not just in their patrol cars, but quite particularly in their personal private cars.
Likewise if there's an ordinance against license plate coverings that may make it harder to read the plate, you can be sure that many cops will use the most extreme of such plate covers in their personal cars. They will be happy to give fines to citizens who have such covers, though.
In many parts of the country cops routinely exceed speed limits with complete impunity (because cops don't bust cops. Even if a cop were to stop another cop for speeding or another similar traffic infraction, most likely he will just let him go once he finds out he's a fellow cop.)
Many American cops routinely don't use their seatbelts when driving, even in cities and states where that's mandated by law (and police officers, even when on duty and driving their patrol vehicles, are not exempt from these statutes.)
Cops routinely park in places and in ways that are illegal and would normally elicit a parking ticket or even worse. And not just with their squad cars, but their personal private cars too. (They cannot do that even when driving their squad cars while on duty if there is no emergency. Even while on duty cops are bound to follow the same traffic laws as everybody else, unless there's a situation that justifies breaking those laws.)
The list could go on and on. Most of it would be related to cars and traffic, but that's by far not the only situation where they freely break laws and ordinances, with complete impunity, because they think they are above the law, and their fellow cops do nothing about it. And this even though there is no exemption in law that would allow them to do that. There's plenty of video evidence of all of this.
Sometimes they are so egregious about it that it almost feels like they are doing it on purpose, just because they can. Just because they know that there will be no consequences. Perhaps it gives them a sense of superiority, knowing that they are above the regular citizens, part of a privileged club, protected by their own peers, allowed to do things that they are constantly citing and arresting citizens of. Like they are part of the elite, a sort of "aristocracy" that's above the peasants. It probably gives them a sense of being special.
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